Andrew Ba Tran

Washington Post Investigative Data Reporter

[FOIA Nate📄 @FOIANate]

Twitter produced at least 32 DMs containing "confidential communications" in response to a warrant sought by special counsel Jack Smith's January 6th investigation, but the Trump Presidential Library claims it cannot not find them.

[Hannah Allam @HannahAllam]

“Despite how it ended, Van Houten said the most heartbreaking part of the buyouts and layoffs wasn’t that she could no longer tell these stories herself - it was the fear that, with so many journalists gone, no one would.”

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Wow. @derspiegel has made millions of Nazi party membership cards searchable so Germans can look up their ancestors and get a glimpse of what they were doing under Hitler

[Jonathan O'Connell @jocwapo]

News: Trump appointees are aggressively pressing staff at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce $250 bills featuring Trump himself.

The director resisted and was reassigned. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.

https://t.co/1z0cEN00ed

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

Wow - DHS circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to national law enforcement for Ben Palmer, the comedian who made that fake ICE tip line. Great work by @aurabogado: https://t.co/5SdmeshQNz

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

Last year, the Trump administration cut spending on surveillance, training and rapid response to Ebola. Supplies like personal protective gear were stuck in warehouses for months. Now, Ebola is spreading. https://t.co/WuMkK15yqM

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later.

https://t.co/D6dJf69jl5

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

Must read this @hannah_natanson tribute to journalism, especially this heartbreaking part about her reporting on the federal workforce last year https://t.co/euolyIFSVX

[Jonathan O'Connell @jocwapo]

I watch a fair amount of televised sports, I recognize there are a lot of gambling ads but I was not prepared at all for what I learned being a part of this project

https://t.co/x0asvNOz7F

[Jonathan O'Connell @jocwapo]

Wild set of internal emails obtained by @Blaskey_S show Trump admin approving use of a *White House* contract to quickly begin work on Trump's planned 250-arch across the Potomac.

[Andrew Ba Tran @abtran]

And they’ll have the social media forces of two newsrooms pushing their links: NOTUS/The Star employees and current @WashingtonPost employees

[NOTUS @NOTUSreports]

The Star launches in June with dramatically expanded coverage of Washington politics and policy — and new coverage of D.C. itself. The District isn’t just the place where politics happens. It’s home to the people who pull the levers of power. It’s where they live and work and commute and eat and vote and navigate the unique intersection of politics and real life.

The Star will cover all of it, from Donald Trump’s stamp on the District to the ambitions of its first new mayor in more than a decade. Who’s wielding power in D.C.? What’s driving them? What impact are they having on housing, schools, transportation and the District’s neighborhoods? What’s next for Home Rule? For statehood? And will the Nationals ever be good again?

We’ll do it with the same rigor we bring to our coverage of national politics and policy, and we’ll do it with the best local reporting team in D.C. We’re excited to announce the start of that team today — veteran journalists you know and trust, plus newcomers who will bring fresh eyes to the vibrant and sometimes vexing place we all call home.

[Adam Taylor @mradamtaylor]

“She probably has two years’ worth of comp time.” https://t.co/TpksauSOsG

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

This is a must-read article based on TONS of data and analysis. Grateful to this team for incredible reporting and their commitment to methodological transparency.

https://t.co/zhuK3IWZpY

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
https://t.co/PMxJxiaMcg

[Alex Horton @AlexHortonTX]

The public video of the WHCD incident sucks, so we reviewed a much clearer version that establishes new findings, including which agent fired the first shots — three of which zipped pretty close to Secret Service and TSA personnel.

🎁 link https://t.co/LarrDeIGn0

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

.@NickJFuentes was driving a small Fiat in Rome with "Nationalism" writer @KeithWoodsYT when our story on his superchats published. "The gist is that I'm monetizing hatred and the poor superchatters are giving all their money to a lazy millionaire who hates them"

[Andrew Ba Tran @abtran]

@EmilyGiam @TheAthletic Expect excellent data stories and excellent baked treats @TheAthletic team

[Emily Giambalvo @EmilyGiam]

Can confirm! I’ve joined @TheAthletic as a data reporter!

Super excited to be part of a talented and ambitious data + visuals team. And I feel so lucky that I’ll get to keep doing work I enjoy and learn new things.

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: https://t.co/8FWMfD4e9v

[Caroline Haskins @car0linehaskins]

FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond. Link below.